foreguard

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ guard.

Verb

foreguard (third-person singular simple present foreguards, present participle foreguarding, simple past and past participle foreguarded)

1. (transitive) To guard beforehand.
2. (transitive) To guard in front.

Noun

foreguard (plural foreguards)

1. A forward guard, or guard placed out front.
   • 1981, David H. Caldwell, Scottish weapons and fortifications:

     The surviving quillon is recurved horizontally and terminates in a small knob, but has adjacent to it a loop-shaped foreguard almost exactly like that on the Montagu sword.

   • 2011, Elizabeth Moon, Kings of the North:

     "[...] Rear guard to river-side, river to foreguard, foreguard to land-side, land-side to rear."